Towel-tomato

A towel-tomato... just before I ate it :-D

This wasn't the first to ripen, but in fact the fourth; none of those on previous days made it as far as the camera!

Heat collapse

The only good thing about working for five hours in temperatures of 98F is that it makes returning home to temperatures of 'only' 80+ degrees feel pleasantly cool... According to the thermometer strip in my bathroom, my body temperature is currently 102, which under any other circumstances would count as running a fever!

The first thing I had to do was fill and carry all my water carriers out to the plants. The basil and pak choi had collapsed, as had the heritage tomatoes, ( Read more... )

( Heat symptoms )

Tag wrangling

I suspect I'm probably the only person who, when deciding that a new blog tag is needed, goes back through hundreds of past entries (I'm currently on ?skip=380) in order to locate all the places where it ought retrospectively to have applied :-p

It never did make much sense that I had a tag for cold but not one for heat -- it was just a matter of historical accident, dating back I think to importing my old blog from MySpace. Which I never did finish doing...

[Edit: I managed to navigate all the way to ?skip=770 (2016) using the "Previous 20" links, but beyond that the site only lets you view one post at a time and go to 'Previous Day', and since this is even slower than skimming the summary versions at 20 per page I've given up on re-tagging at around August 2015.]